Lars Hellström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What license should I use if I want to make a _font_ free software?
If you mean a bitmap font, then it's already free, because bitmap fonts are not copyrightable (in the US, at any rate; I'm not familiar with the law everywhere). If you mean a physical font, the same is also true. If you mean a programmatic font, then the program is a program, and you can use whatever free software license you like. So *.mf, for example, should be licensed under your favorite free software license. If you mean a bitmap font, like the output of METAFONT, then it's like any other bitmap font, and it's already free. Some document formats include programmatic fonts in the document. I think here the question is whether the combination is font-program plus text is a single program or not. This comes up if the license you want is the GPL. It would be bizarre in the extreme, it seems to me, to regard the combination as a single program (at least, assuming you don't massively intertwine them). I think this would be a matter of mere aggregation. However, note that if the document format distributes font-programs in something other than source, and you want to use the GPL, you need to make sure the source gets sent along with the font-program somehow. (Perhaps the document format has some kind of comment syntax where you could stash it.) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
